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. line 83, with "parting" instead of "going."

[329-1] See Ben Jonson, page 177.

[329-2] See Dryden, page 267.

[329-3] The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

GOLDSMITH: _The Traveller, line 137._

[329-4] A breath can make them as a breath has made.--GOLDSMITH: _The Deserted Village, line 54._

[329-5] See Sidney, page 34.

[330-1] This line is from a poem entitled "To the Celebrated Beauties of the British Court," given in Bell's "Fugitive Poetry," vol. iii. p. 118.

The following epigram is from "The Grove," London, 1721:--

When one good line did much my wonder raise, In Br--st's works, I stood resolved to praise, And had, but that the modest author cries, "Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise."

_On a certain line of Mr. Br----, Author of a Copy of Verses called the British Beauties._

[330-2] See Cibber, page 297.

[331-1] Another, yet the same.--TICKELL: _From a Lady in England._ JOHNSON: _Life of Dryden._ DARWIN: _Botanic Garden, part i . canto iv. line 380._ WORDSWORTH: _The Excursion,